"My mother went to a residential school, but it took me years to find out about it because my mother and her family wouldn't share that fact. A large part of this country does not know what happened — it was systematic, premeditated cultural genocide. It's very easy to judge Indigenous people when you see them struggling... but that's only because many don't know their story and what they endured."

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